Tag Archives: Consoles
Jun
Over 25% of Console Gamers are Female
Written by Scrooby on 30th June, 2009
A study carried out in April 2008 by Nielsen Company found that around 50% of all PC gamers were actually female, came as quite a surprise. However, if you look at some individual games it wouldn’t really come as a surprise because with games such as The Sims 3, the majority of the players are women. That aside, it now seems that these women are branching out on the console sector because a new study has been carried out by the NPD Group, a leading American marketing company, which has found that 28% of console gamers are women. This 28% is a 5% rise on last years results which found that only 23% of console gamers and women. NPD explained…
May
Horrible Parental Control Console Device
Written by Scrooby on 20th May, 2009
Technology has alwasy made gamers lives even better, but now it’s working against us and helping the parents in their attempt to get us off out consoles. The horrible device is called the GameDR which claims to be tamper proof and it fits around the plug of your consoles. Once it’s got it’s hands on your console plug it can then be programmed to have a count down timer which once up, shuts off the power to the console. What kind of monster would create such a product!? Although this is bad news, there is a warning noise when you only have 10 more minutes of play time which gives you 10 minutes to kick up a fuss and try…
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